Nour Awada
Institut français Milano
Gallery and Cloister
Corso Magenta, 63
20th – 23th October 2016
Vernissage: 20th october, 6PM – 10PM
Esposizione: 21th – 23th october, 11AM – 9PM
Video Sound Art Festival presents the interactive exhibition of the French-Lebanese artist Nour Awada, that involves the Gallery and the Cloister of the Institut français Milano.
The artist will showcase a video performance, which portrays her own body exposed to a freezing rain and she will also display a series of terracotta and bronze sculptures and other works. The exposition was developed in connection with the theme of the Festival “TA EROTIKA, Hidden doors”.
Website: www.nourawada.com/
The exhibition of Nour Awada is curated by Laura Lamonea
Alice Jarry and Vincent Evrard
“Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology
Sala del Cenacolo
Via San Vittore, 21
28th – 30th October 2016
Vernissage: 28th October, 6PM – 10PM
Esposizione: 29th – 30th October, 11AM – 10PM
Alice Jarry lives and works in Montreal. Through a site specific practice, her digital art installations investigate the question of assemblages and the impact of materiality in the generation of dynamic forms, accidental and fleeting. Her work was recently presented at Device_Art Triennal (Zagreb), Invisible Dog Art Center (New York), Le Manège de Sury as part of Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture (Mons, Be) the Second International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN, Montreal), La gare numérique (France), as part of the LASER series (Leonardo Journal) and in several exhibition locations in Canada, the United States and Europe. Alice Jarry is a PhD candidate in Études et pratiques des arts (UQAM) and teaches Computation Arts at Concordia University.
Alice Jarry will present Lighthouses, a site-specific kinetic installation with dichroic glass, mirrors, broken glass, stepper motors, LEDs, sensors created in collaboration with Vincent Evrard.
Website: www.alicejarry.com
The exhibition of Alice Jarry is curated by Michele Pili
Bibi Yamamoto
“Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology
Sala delle Colonne
Via San Vittore, 21
28th – 30th October 2016
Vernissage: 28th October, 6PM – 10PM
Esposizione: 29th – 30th October, 11AM – 10PM
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1984. Lives and works in Milan. Bibi Yamamoto explores the relation between mind and matter, combining psycho-physical concepts and multi-media installations inspired by ordinary, everyday life. Titles like Wet Pink, Salty Yellow and A Hard Cock full of Hope are a synesthetic provocation to the erotic memory of the viewer – “everything is happening in your head, nothing is really there” says Bibi. Bibi expresses an interest in the juxtaposition of figuration and abstraction in video, analog photography, oil painting, clay sculptures, found objects and its aspects of intimacy and identity. Her work aesthetics – the use of colour, essential shapes and precious materials, such as silk and gold – is influenced by her fashion and graphic design background.
Website: www.bibiyamamoto.com
The exhibition of Bibi Yamamoto is curated by Laura Lamonea
Thadeusz Tischbein
Franco Parenti Theatre
Sala Treno Blu
Via Pier Lombardo, 14
29th – 30th October 2016
Vernissage: 29th October, 6PM – 9PM
Esposizione: 30th October, 6PM – 9PM
Thadeusz Tischbein was born in Germany in 1971, he lives and works in Leipzig (Germany).
Schneewittchen / Snow white, the unpublished German artist’s film project, develops around the triad Desire – Love – Death and it starts from the observation of the effort put in place by some cultures to preserve the bodies of the dead. From this reflection, Thadeusz Tischbein weaves references to history, literature, myth and to contemporary art, with a complex video installation in which theater wings lose their function, becoming the projection screen themselves. They, as well as the bodies now inanimate, are transformed into sculptures, intangible skin and metaphor of a desire that cannot be fulfilled. It is a fragile surface, which manifests the vanity of the erotic experience of being a means to transcend mortality.
Website: tischbein.org
The exhibition of Thadeusz Tischbein is curated by Marta Cereda
Delphine Depres
Museum of Design 1880 – 1980
Prima Sala
Via Giosuè Borsi, 9
3rd – 6th November 2016
Vernissage: 3rd November, 6PM – 9PM
Esposizione: 4th – 6th November, 5PM– 9PM
Delphine Depres was born in France in 1982, she lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland). Her artistic work unfolds between installation and performance, her poetry aims at the deconstruction of the spectacular, implemented through the combination of new technologies and handcrafted items. In her works there is no distinction between low and high tech, both blended together into a single narrative that puts the viewers in the position of constant change of their point of view. Following this criterion, Delphine Depres has devised a new video installation for Video Sound Art Festival, where micro and macro are continuously stacked, playing on the deceit that characterizes the erotic dimension. Originally in an icy environment, our senses are called to reveal a perceptual distortion, while the artist plays with matter, with a physical and tactile approach, between playfulness and sensuality.
Website: www.delphinedepres.net
The exhibition of Delphine Depres is curated by Marta Cereda
Ugo La Pietra
Villa Simonetta
Cappella Gentilizia
Via Stilicone, 36
JANUARY 2017
Born in in 1938. He studied at the Politechnic in Milan and in 1964 he got a degree in Architecture; at the same time he made researches on visual arts and music. Architect, artist, designer and researcher in the big area of the systems of communication, He communicates his researches through works and exhibitions; he has been the Director of many magazines, He has worked as a teacher in Universities and Art Schools.He has designed products and collections for many firms in Italy and outside.
Website: www.ugolapietra.com
The exhibition of Ugo La Pietra is curated by Lucio La Pietra
Cleo Fariselli
Villa Simonetta
Cappella Gentilizia
Via Stilicone, 36
JANUARY 2017
Cleo Fariselli was born in Cesenatico in 1982. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in 2007, and completed her education with workshops held by Jimmie Durham (Fondazione Ratti), Rirkrit Tiravanija (Domus Academy) and Liliana Moro (Fondazione Spinola Banna). In 2009 she was an artist in residence in Paris at the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art, while in 2013 she took part in the BAR residence programme in Barcelona. Among her recent solo shows, we might mention ‘Serpenti nelle grondaie’ (GAFF, Milan), ‘U.’ (Fonderia Artistica Battaglia; Milan) and ‘Samus Viridis X-9’ (Espacio Sant Pere, Barcelona). Group shows include the ‘5×5 Castellò Award’ (EACC, Castellò), ‘Estate’ (Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York), the Prague Biennale 5 (Prague) and the ‘Ariane De Rothschild Prize’ (Palazzo Reale, Milan).
Website: cleofariselli.tumblr.com/
The exhibition of Cleo Fariselli is curated by Barbara Garatti